Tag Archives: Aditi Krishnan

India to soon get medical test that predicts a person’s lifespan

May 1, 2012 – 2:08 pm

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING Chromosome testing can be used to accurately predict a person’s biological lifespan vis-à-vis chronological age, it has been found. This revolutionary test, which measures the length of telomeres (caps at the end of chromosomes), will be available in India in 2012. “Now, more Indians believe in healthy living. Many would […]

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Disease control: Postmen double up as social workers in Gorakhpur

February 21, 2012 – 1:49 pm

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING The postman does not just deliver mail in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. He is going to be chatting up consumers on Japanese encephalitis. Prevention strategies will be his main topic of discussion. Senior doctors from District Hospital Medical College and WHO health officials have been roped in to instruct the mailmen. 80 […]

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Powering on: Tamil Nadu village to become energy self-sufficient

November 29, 2011 – 4:33 pm

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING While the rest of the state languishes under severe power cuts, Odunathurai in Mettupalyam, a small village in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, is all set to supply itself with free energy within the next five years. The villages panchayat (local grassroots self-government body), which has won the distinction of being the […]

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Chalta Firta School on wheels gives slum kids in Delhi a chance to study

October 25, 2011 – 4:21 pm

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING Kids don’t go to this school. The school comes to them. It’s a school on wheels. Young dropouts from slums in Delhi are being coerced by NGO Butterflies and the government’s Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, to not give up on learning. The big yellow bus school appropriately named ‘Chalta Firta School’ […]

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Mountain Cleaners take on Himalayan cleanup operation

August 2, 2011 – 11:35 am

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING After a successful cleanup effort in 2010, Mountain Cleaners, a group of volunteers from around the world, including many from India, is taking on the task of keeping the mountains in the Chamba area in Himachal Pradesh pristine and garbage-free. Mountain Cleaners is preparing to clear the trash in time […]

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Invading living rooms: Mythology to rule primetime yet again

July 13, 2011 – 9:28 am

by Aditi Krishnan WHAT’S HAPPENING TV producers are set to satiate Indian viewers’ voracious appetite for mythology. Serialized versions of epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata captivated India’s imagination in the 1980s. Their reruns are popular to this day, prompting producers to capitalize anew on viewers’ love for glitzy costume period dramas. To keep viewers hooked […]

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